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JohnT · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 4:15 pm Post subject:

“When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes (1919 - 1990) was an American entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine.

Teri · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 6:05 am Post subject:

Book lovers never go to bed alone. ~Author Unknown

JohnT · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 9:09 pm Post subject:

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (born 1941)
He is an American author best known for his inspirational book, Life's Little Instruction Book,

Teri · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 6:30 am Post subject:

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine. ~Wayne Dyer

JohnT · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:46 pm Post subject:

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret,
Never to be told.

-- This is reported to be children's doggerel. Some of it heard in "The Healer' on streaming TV.

JohnT · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 8:22 pm Post subject:

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

-- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 - 1881)
Amiel was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.

JohnT · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 8:33 pm Post subject:

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

-- Petrarch (1304 - 1374)
Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet during the early Italian Renaissance who was one of the earliest humanists.

Teri · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 6:02 am Post subject:

At the far edge of my view was the ocean... I could not make sense of its size and grandeur. It was not a pond, not a lake, but a second sky, bluer and more chaotic than the one above it. ~Abby Geni

JohnT · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:59 pm Post subject:

“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

— Michael J. Fox (born 1961)
He is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, author, film producer and activist with a film and television career spanning from the 1970s.

Teri · Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 6:01 am Post subject:

Green was the silence, wet was the light; the month of June trembled like a butterfly... ~Pablo Neruda

JohnT · Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 8:27 pm Post subject:

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
He was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.

JohnT · Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:17 pm Post subject:

It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gon' come, oh yes, it will

It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die
'Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky

-- Sam Cooke (1931 - 1964)
He was an American singer, songwriter, civil-rights activist and entrepreneur.

Teri · Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2020 7:13 am Post subject:

Wherever else they may have come from, unicorns live inside the true believer’s heart. ~Bruce Coville

Teri · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2020 5:43 am Post subject:

Never moon a werewolf. ~National Lampoon

JohnT · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2020 4:19 pm Post subject:

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”

– Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
He was a theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. He was the 1952 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.